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I'd never heard of Coolify, but it looks like what I've been searching for, i.e. an all-in-one solution for hosting stuff on a VPS (or Pi). But the docs [1] say it requires a minimum of 30 GB of disk space.

Does anyone know if that is accurate? What could possibly be taking up that 30 GB if all I want to do is host a static site and maybe Deno or Node? I'm fairly certain I set something similar up in the past on a much smaller MicroSD card...

[1] https://docs.coollabs.io/coolify/requirements

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You can also check out CapRover, similar self-hosted PaaS like Coolify but simpler to set up and manage in my opinion: https://caprover.com/

If you don't need/want a UI then Dokku is another option. It is more mature with things like built-in backups for the database. I've been a happy user for many years now. Coolify seems nice as well though.

https://dokku.com/

Dokku was my Plan A :)

I you want something even lighter, have a look at https://github.com/piku

I have a 32 GB SD card it's running on it no problem. It currently takes like 4 GB (it can store previous docker images for speeding up builds and allowing auto rollback).

Thanks! That sounds much more reasonable. I wonder why they put 30 GB as the "Minimum required resources"...

Linux is really bloated these days. I am confident you could self host a decent website on OpenBSD with less than a GB of disk space and several GB of RAM. It is really incredible to me how in 2023 we are doing basically nothing that could not be done in 2013 but it takes an order of magnitude more computing power. Serving a medium size website is not really that complicated unless you are hosting a bunch of videos or whatever.

Stories like these just go to show me how much fat there is in Tech. The sector is in for a sharp reality check. You don't need 10s of gigs of RAM and 20 cores to host your blog or small business e-commerce site. But if you use the latest bullshit framework then maybe you do...

30GB disk space is the recommended disk space to be able to host something with it. Coolify itself is a few hundred MB (thank you, node_modules).

(developer of Coolify here)

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